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Our minor league system allows you to keep a guy until he reaches 200 AB before he must be promoted. If said player reaches the AB amount and you don't promote him, he is officially fair game for all. Someone in our league has Kole Calhoun in his minors, and no one has called him out on it.
Normally, I would point this out to our designated minor league tracker, but I am 99.9% sure that this owner left him listed in his minors hoping no one would notice and that he is aware he is over the limit, but is hoping no one else realizes it (he took a risk in keeping him down, because his OF was loaded last year, and he probably thought Calhoun would not go over...our deadline for promotions is the start of our playoffs).
He is the one guy in our 16 team league that would do that and has the baseball knowledge and obsessiveness to check his own players. He has also done things like this before. His stated mottos are "if you aren't trying to cheat, you aren't trying hard enough" and "rules are meant to be interpreted in my favor." His league nickname is the sniper, because the second another minor leaguer goes over the limit in our league, he grabs him in our wild west system, where you can do that if someone is foolish enough to leave a player in the minors that long. he revels in this, and tracks ABs religiously, which is why I think he is trying to get away with something.
Anyway, I guess, writing it out, none of that should really matter. It is justification for my desire to pretend I didn't notice, wait to the end of our auction, and call out Calhoun for a buck, which I could do, because legally, he is no longer owned by anyone, even though the rest of the league thinks he is.
But that is wrong, right? I don't do those sort of things as a rule. Someone talk me into just letting everyone know of this error now.
Of course, my league has several minor league hawks, so it very may well be that a few other owners noticed and are also deciding to keep quiet (Calhoun went over at the end of the year when no one would have been able to pick him up, so maybe some have noticed since then).
Normally, I would point this out to our designated minor league tracker, but I am 99.9% sure that this owner left him listed in his minors hoping no one would notice and that he is aware he is over the limit, but is hoping no one else realizes it (he took a risk in keeping him down, because his OF was loaded last year, and he probably thought Calhoun would not go over...our deadline for promotions is the start of our playoffs).
He is the one guy in our 16 team league that would do that and has the baseball knowledge and obsessiveness to check his own players. He has also done things like this before. His stated mottos are "if you aren't trying to cheat, you aren't trying hard enough" and "rules are meant to be interpreted in my favor." His league nickname is the sniper, because the second another minor leaguer goes over the limit in our league, he grabs him in our wild west system, where you can do that if someone is foolish enough to leave a player in the minors that long. he revels in this, and tracks ABs religiously, which is why I think he is trying to get away with something.
Anyway, I guess, writing it out, none of that should really matter. It is justification for my desire to pretend I didn't notice, wait to the end of our auction, and call out Calhoun for a buck, which I could do, because legally, he is no longer owned by anyone, even though the rest of the league thinks he is.
But that is wrong, right? I don't do those sort of things as a rule. Someone talk me into just letting everyone know of this error now.
Of course, my league has several minor league hawks, so it very may well be that a few other owners noticed and are also deciding to keep quiet (Calhoun went over at the end of the year when no one would have been able to pick him up, so maybe some have noticed since then).
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